発展

はってん · hatten · JLPT N3 · noun

development

🌱📈 発 set out + 展 unfold = things setting out and unfolding: development

発 means to emit or set out, as in 出発 (departure). 展 means to unfold or spread, as in 展開 (expansion). Put them together and something starts and keeps spreading outward: development, growth, progress.

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